Across
- 1. Framework that provides expectations about topics, events, objects, people, and situations
- 2. Encoding Encoding of sound
- 4. Encoding Encoding of pictures or images
- 7. Stage Language stage at 3-4 months
- 11. Congruency When a person experiences a certain mood, they may remember certain memories
- 12. Memory Capacity of 7+-2
- 13. System that encodes, stores, and retrieves information
- 15. Specificity Principle The closer the retrieval cues match the memory, the more information that will be remembered
- 16. Smallest unit that carries meaning
- 18. Stage Language stage where child uses phrases like "go car"
- 20. Similar location and conditions may trigger memories
- 21. Simple rules that serve as shortcuts to solve complex tasks and problems
- 24. Acquisition Devices A mental structure that facilitates the learning of language due to preprogrammed fundamental language rules
- 25. Concepts Mental classifications defined by a set of rules and characteristics (concepts learned in school)
- 26. Processing Encoding that requires conscious effort
- 29. As a memory fades over time, this occurs
- 30. Trial and error
- 32. Heuristic Judging the likelihood of an event occurring based on the most readily available information that you are thinking about
- 33. Amnesia Inability to remember memories that previously occurred
- 36. Word Stage Language stage at 2 years
- 37. Locating and recovering of information from memory
- 40. Fixedness Only using an object for what it's intended purpose is
- 41. Memory Shortest memory that is responsible for our senses
- 43. Ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
- 44. Encoding Encoding of meaning
- 46. Set Problem solving based on what we've previously done
Down
- 1. The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
- 3. Changes Physical change in the brain while processing memories
- 5. Mental pictures
- 6. Heuristic Estimates the probability of event, starting from a certain point, rather than the beginning
- 8. Quick association that recalls a memory
- 9. Smallest distinctive sound unit
- 10. Problem-solving procedure that guarantees a correct outcome in the end
- 13. Memory aid
- 14. Set of rules by which we derive meaning
- 17. Process by which some concepts are viewed as more important than others
- 19. Heuristic People decide whether an example belongs to a certain group based on its similarities to other things in that group
- 22. Analogies Using mental sets
- 23. Ebbinghaus Created the learning curve
- 27. Amnesia Inability to form new memories
- 28. Hypothesis Argument that a language a person uses determines their perception of reality
- 31. Stage Language stage at 1-2 years
- 34. A mental image or best example of a category
- 35. Memory Photographic memory
- 38. Processing Encoding that is accidental unconscious
- 39. Memories Incredibly vivid and emotional memories
- 42. Schemas about sequences of events and actions expected to occur in particular settings
- 45. Concepts Mental classifications that develop from everyday experiences